Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 5721854Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 492 pagina’s
...adapted to promote each other's happiness, of whom it ¡nay be said with melancholy truth, " Alae ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth." What then is the part which friendship ought to act in a case where rumor is strong against a friend... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pagina’s
...Genevieve, My bright and beauteous bride ! BROKEN FRIENDSHIP. [FROM THE UNFINISHED POEM OF CHRISTABEL.] ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pagina’s
...name. Why wax'd Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine f nd lives in realms above, And life is thorny ; and youth is vain t And to be wroth with one we love. Doth... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...quarrel between Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth. " Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ! And life is thorny ! and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love,... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pagina’s
...startled Scotland loud should ring, ' Revenge for blood and treachery !' " SCOTT. THE QUARREL OF FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny, and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth... | |
| 1846 - 484 pagina’s
...mountain, and reminding us, by its proximity to the Cadr, of those beautiful lines from the " Christabel" of Coleridge:— " Alas! they had been friends in...whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pagina’s
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth... | |
| Gift - 1846 - 268 pagina’s
...Crown'd with mercy, O ! how sweet Will eternal friendship be ! CW THOMPSON. THE QUARREL OP FRIENDS. ALAS ! they had been friends in youth : But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth... | |
| Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pagina’s
...she cried. " Emily ! Emily I" exclaimed Alick, but he stood in the drawing-room alone. CHAPTER III. Alas ! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 pagina’s
...name, Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale, Murmuring o'er the name again, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love,... | |
| |